Other coronary interventions

When retrieving a lost guidewire, the snare technique is feasible with a GooseNeck snare and it is easier when the fragment is located proximally in a coronary artery.

Learn how CTO’s skills can help in everyday practice in this clinical case by B. Faurie and M. Abdellaoui from the Cardiovascular Institute of GHM, Grenoble on an 82-year-old male patient with chronic anaemia.

Consult this clinical case of a 75-year-old male patient by O. Muller on Rotablator entrapment, if you want to learn how to manage a rotablation atherectomy complication via surgery.

Complications using the Rotablator system are increasingly rare, but what if one occurred - for instance, a wire under the stent struts with a blocked rota? Learn how to deal with this complication here…

In the case of rota burr or shaft disconnection, the burr has become stuck and when an attempt is made to take it out, the broken shaft could be either within or outside the guiding catheter. Discover how to manage this complication...

Herein we have presented a new retrieval method involving a guide extension catheter combined with a snare, which is used to successfully rescue an entrapped Rotablator.

Burr entrapment is a rare and challenging complication of rotablation. Learn what techniques might be used and follow the step-by-step approach to dealing with this complication

One of some techniques is to use a 2nd wire and to inflate a balloon...

The mini-STAR technique is a promising bailout strategy for the management of entrapped burr in the event of complications, achieving a high procedural success rate and low occurrence of procedural adverse events.

There are several techniques typically employed to retrieve a stuck rotablator burr. The snare can be be attempted but not in first attention.